PieFedHow to avoid getting locked-out of your Google Account (again)
Michael Altfieldtech.michaelaltfield.net/2026/02/03/single-site…
Persistent, Sandboxed, Single-Site Browser (firejail and proxychains)
Or how to avoid getting locked-out of another Google Account
By Michael Altfield
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/
This guide will describe how to setup a persistent browser (for Evil Corp) that's isolated in a sandbox (with firejail) and forced to use a SOCKS5 proxy to retain a static IP address (using proxychains)
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Have you ever been locked out of your own account, and then got an email for your service provider annoyingly letting you know that they've *"blocked a login attempt -- *for your protection?*"*
There's countless reports of frustrated users who have permanently lost access to their own gmail accounts* because of Google's faulty "fraud protection" systems that locked the account owner out of their own account, *due to false-positives.
Read the full article here:
There's only one thing you can do: stop using it, stop giving them [an opportunity to use your data for] money. Everything other solution is mediocre at best. Thanks for sharing, though.
Yeah, agreed that's best.
As I said in the article, I encountered this issue with the admin account of Google Workspace for a client. I've tried to suggest to the client that they migrate off Google, but they're a small nonprofit and have 0 IT staff or budget for an alternative. And they're grandfathered-in to a free Google Workspace account (as an NGO).
Yes, for small, especially non-IT businesses, it's really hard. But thank you again for the article, I think we might (unfortunately) need such setup for different other things in the near future too.
Banks come to mind. And government-provided services, like health insurance.
I solved this problem by taking all my shit out of Google. The only service of theirs I still use is YouTube, and I don't lose much if they lock me out of that.